Google Earth 6.2 was released last week with improved imagery, Google+ integration and improvements to search. Sadly one thing wasn’t fixed: the infamous ‘font issue‘ in Linux. You can read more about what’s new by clicking here. Ugly Font Fix Google provide 32bit and 64bit .Deb installers for Ubuntu users. Whilst Google Earth 6.2 works well [...]
Earlier today we posted a short guide on fixing Google Earth’s infamous ‘ugly fonts’ issue when running under Ubuntu. In the comments to that post a reader, Daniele80, pointed us in the direction of a hack that enables Google Earth to look ‘native’ under Ubuntu. Be warned: the following guide isn’t for the fainthearted or the inexperienced. If things go [...]
It’s hardly a secret that many Google employees use Ubuntu for their day-to-day work – but it’s always nice to be reminded. In the following promotional video from Google, titled ‘Working at Google Krakow‘, you can’t move for small glimpses of the Ubuntu 10.04 desktop… Thanks to Ed Ubuntu in the Wild: Google Krakow OMG! Ubuntu! – [...]
Google Music Frame has a new name, and some new service support to boot. The desktop-integrated web-app is now called ‘Nuvola player’, after the developer sought out a new name late last week. ‘Nuvola’ is an Italian word meaning ‘cloud’. And as well as the new name, the latest developments builds also bring support for Grooveshark and 8Track [...]
Google Music, the search giants cloud-music player/storage service, slipped off its beta tag and emerged into the land of ‘available to all’ yesterday. Well available to all in America. The new ‘Music Store’ portion of the Android Marketplace, which pits Google against Amazon and iTunes in the MP3 arena, is off-limits to anyone who isn’t stateside. But gaining access [...]
My favourite music app ‘Google Music Frame’ has been updated. Now on version 0.3, the latest release of Google Music Frame ships with a handful of minor new features. What’s new The Unity quicklist has been updated with ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’ entries: – A tray item has been introduced for non-Ubuntu Sound Menu using desktop environments (such [...]
